People have been talking about terraforming and colonizing Mars since the beginning of space travel, and in the past few years that ambition seems to ...
Glucosamine: The new metformin? | Interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part ii)
Last week when we heard from Dr. Ristow, he turned the outdated notion of the “free radical theory of aging” on its head, and demonstrated that antiox...
Free radicals are not your enemy | An interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part i)
Dr. Michael Ristow, a professor of energy metabolism at ETH Zurich, bases much of his research into aging on a premise that many of us will find surpr...
FOXO vs. a harbinger of neurodegeneration
Long before the usual physiological signs, the withering of neurons and the gradual atrophy of the brain, that tip doctors off to the presence of a ne...